Machine for grooving boards for boxes



(No Model.)

G. WILSON.

MACHINE FOR GROOVING BOARDS FOR BOXES.

No. 287,207. Patented Oct. 28, 1883.

wz a Ma irn TATES GEORGE WILSON, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

MACHINE FOR GROOVING BOARDS FOR BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,207, dated October23, 1883.

Application filed May 17, 1883. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE \VILSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Toledo,

in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a new and usefulMachine for Making Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to the construction of machinery for the better,stronger, more rapid, and more economical production of the partitionsof bottle and other packing-boxes, which require their inside spaces tobe partitioned or divided for the safety and convenient handling of thecontents which they are designed to carry, and for strengthanddurability requiring the said partitions to interlock and be securedtogether in the most substantial manner. The said partitions as usuallymade are composed of a series of pieces, preferably of wood, the lengthof which corresponds to the inside measure of the box which is to bedivided, and of suitable width to give the required height to thecompartments, and are commonly united by grooving one-half way throughthe width or vertical height of the several pieces-a process which isknown to the trade as halving together. The edges of the several pieceswhich are thus out are thereby weakened, and often break away for wantof adequate support from the adjacent parts with which they connect; andto remedy this defect another and partially different form of unitingthe said partitions has been adopted,which is hereinafter explained, theeconomical production of which partitions requires special machinery,which machinery is the object of my invention and explained in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig.2 a vertical section on line A, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is aview inperspective of the table, upon which the stock is placed and held by anysuitable means while being operated upon; and

Fig. at is a plan of the inside partitions of a box as made upon mymachine. Fig. 5 is a side view of one piece of material as prepared onmy machine to form a section, as shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is an edge viewon line B, Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 is also an edge view Fig. 5.

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

on line C,

Attached to the frame D, and mounted in suitable bearings, e, revolvethree arbors, f.

These several arbors carry a series of saws or cutters, g, of suitablewidth and'diameter to cut the slots and grooves shown in Figs. 5, 6, and7. Mounted upon tracks h, and adapted to be adjusted vertically by meansof wedges j, screws 70, and wheel m, and to slide toward and from thesaw-arbors g, is the table I.

The table I, Fig. 3, is constructed with radial fingers a, which areadapted to be adjusted longitudinally by means of slot 0, bars 0, andbolts g. It is obvious that this construct-ion admits the cutters g tobe passed between the fingers n for the purpose of cutting a piece, asshown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7. It is also apparent that more or fewercutters g and and fingers a may be used, ifdesired, to have more or lesssections, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7.

I am aware that the form of rack shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7, slotted andgrooved together as shown, is old, also saws and tables of variouskindsv for grooving the same by more than one operation; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a box-making machine constructed substantially as hereindescribed, the table I, having arranged relatively theretolongitudinally-adj ustable radial fingers n, which are supported at oneend only, in combination with the three saw or grooving-arbors, f ff,arranged and adapted for completing the slotting and grooving of onesection of stock by one operation, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a box-making machine constructed substantially as hereindescribed, the table I, having relatively theretolongitudinally-adjustable radial fingers 12, slots 0, bars p, and boltsin combination with the three saw or grooving-arbors f f f, arranged andadapted for completing the slotting and grooving of one section of stockby one operation, substantially as shown and described.

ADOLPHE GALIPEAU, EMIL LEHMAN.

